Are you looking for a light and fluffy bread that is perfect for breakfast, lunch, or dinner? Look no further than popovers! Popovers are a classic American dish that is made with simple ingredients and can be easily prepared in a popover pan. This versatile bread can be served with a variety of toppings, from butter and jam to gravy and cheese. Whether you are a seasoned baker or a beginner in the kitchen, you will find a popover recipe in this article that is perfect for you. From classic popovers to savory cheese popovers and even sweet chocolate chip popovers, there is a popover recipe for every taste. So preheat your oven and get ready to enjoy this delicious and versatile bread!
Here are our top 8 tried and tested recipes!
POPOVERS
There are three secrets to great popovers: Make sure the pan is hot before you pour in the batter, fill each section not more than half full and no peeking while they're in the oven!
Provided by Ina Garten
Categories dessert
Time 40m
Yield 12 popovers
Number Of Ingredients 5
Steps:
- Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F.
- Generously grease aluminum popover pans or Pyrex custard cups with softened butter. You'll need enough pans to make 12 popovers. Place the pans in the oven for exactly 2 minutes to preheat. Meanwhile, whisk together the flour, salt, eggs, milk, and melted butter until smooth. The batter will be thin. Fill the popover pans less than half full and bake for exactly 30 minutes. Do not peek.
POPOVERS
Popovers begin with essentially the same batter as Yorkshire pudding. Purists will tell you that what makes Yorkshire pudding so great is that it's cooked in beef drippings. But butter isn't a bad stand-in, and popovers are pretty easy. You can buy special popover pans, with deeper, narrower cups which force the tops up in a more pronounced fashion, but I wouldn't bother. Any muffin pan will produce a perfect popover if the butter is hot, the batter is rich and smooth and the baker is patient. But the patience ends when the popovers are done: they must be eaten right away.
Provided by Mark Bittman
Categories easy, side dish
Time 45m
Yield 12 popovers
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Drizzle a teaspoon or so of melted butter in each cup of a 12-cup muffin pan or a popover tin and put it in oven while you make batter.
- Beat together the eggs, milk, 1 tablespoon butter, sugar and salt. Beat in the flour a little bit at a time and add thyme if using; mixture should be smooth.
- Carefully remove muffin tin from oven and fill each cup about halfway. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes, then reduce heat to 350 degrees and continue baking for 15 minutes more, or until popovers are puffed and browned. Do not check popovers until they have baked for a total of 30 minutes. Remove from pan immediately and serve hot.
Nutrition Facts : @context http, Calories 104, UnsaturatedFat 2 grams, Carbohydrate 9 grams, Fat 6 grams, Fiber 0 grams, Protein 3 grams, SaturatedFat 4 grams, Sodium 103 milligrams, Sugar 1 gram, TransFat 0 grams
NEW POPOVER PAN RECIPE
I recently got a large-sized popover pan, and wanted to try the recipe that came with it. I like that the batter can be mixed quickly by hand. Popovers are a most interesting quick bread: they don't use yeast or chemical leavenings to make them rise. They rely on steam to form oversize, crispy breads that pop up 3 times their...
Provided by Susan Feliciano
Categories Other Breakfast
Time 55m
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- 1. Preheat the oven to 400°F. Grease 6 wells of a large popover pan with soft butter and a pastry brush.
- 2. Use a large mixing bowl and a wire whisk. Beat the eggs, milk, and salt together. Mix in the flour until completely smooth. Continue mixing for a few minutes to develop the gluten. Add the melted butter after the gluten is developed so the fat will not interfere with the gluten development.
- 3. Fill the prepared cups only a scant half-full. Bake for 40 minutes on the center rack. The popovers will dry and become rigid.
- 4. Turn off the oven, open the door, and with a sharp knife, quickly make a 1" slit in the side of each popover to release the steam. Close the oven door and let them sit for 10-15 minutes. During this period, the interior of the popovers should become dry and sturdy.
- 5. Lift the popovers from the pan immediately after removing the pan from the oven by grasping the tops with an oven mitt or glove.
- 6. Serve plain, or with butter and jam. Best served hot, straight from the oven. ***They can also be cut open and filled with sweetened berries and topped with whipped cream for a shortcake-type dessert.***
TRADITIONAL POPOVERS
This recipe is for traditional popovers. They can be served plain, but my family prefers them with raspberry butter.
Provided by J MILLER
Categories Bread Quick Bread Recipes Popovers and Yorkshire Pudding Recipes
Time 50m
Yield 6
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C).
- Spray a popover pan with nonstick cooking spray. Place pan on center rack of oven and preheat for 2 minutes.
- Blend flour, salt, eggs, milk, and melted butter until it looks like heavy cream, about 1 to 2 minutes.
- Cut chilled butter into 6 even pieces. Place 1 piece of butter in each cup and place pan back in oven until butter is bubbly (about 1 minute).
- Fill each cup half full with batter and bake 20 minutes. Reduce heat to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C) and bake for another 15 to 20 minutes.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 182.8 calories, Carbohydrate 18 g, Cholesterol 111.5 mg, Fat 9.2 g, Fiber 0.6 g, Protein 6.7 g, SaturatedFat 5 g, Sodium 149.8 mg, Sugar 2.2 g
POPOVERS
A light and airy favorite bread treat. Serve piping hot and enjoy!
Provided by Christy
Categories Bread Quick Bread Recipes Popovers and Yorkshire Pudding Recipes
Yield 6
Number Of Ingredients 4
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C). Grease and flour six 6-ounce custard cups.
- In a medium bowl beat eggs slightly, Beat in flour, milk and salt until just smooth; being careful not to overbeat. Fill custard cups 1/2 full.
- Bake at 450 degrees F (230 degrees C) for 20 minutes. Decrease oven temperature to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) and bake for 20 minutes more. Immediately remove from cups and serve piping hot.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 120 calories, Carbohydrate 17.9 g, Cholesterol 65.3 mg, Fat 2.7 g, Fiber 0.6 g, Protein 5.6 g, SaturatedFat 1.1 g, Sodium 234.2 mg, Sugar 2.1 g
POPOVERS
Provided by Food Network Kitchen
Categories dessert
Time 1h5m
Yield 6 servings
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour and salt. In another bowl, whisk together the milk, butter, and eggs. Make a well in the flour, pour in the milk mixture, and whisk to make a smooth batter. Set batter aside for 10 minutes.
- Heat a non-stick or well-seasoned 6-cup popover pan in the oven for 5 minutes. Carefully remove the pan from the oven and brush the inside of the cups with the shortening. Ladle the batter into the cups and bake for 20 minutes, without opening the oven. (Do not open the oven during baking.)
- Lower the heat to 350 degrees F. and continue to bake the popovers for 20 minutes, at this point they will be golden brown. Right after removing the popovers from the oven, poke each one with a paring knife to release steam. Turn popovers from the pan and serve immediately with butter and jam.
POPOVER PAN POPOVER RECIPE
This recipe came from the packaging on the popover pan I bought from Williams Sonoma. I've tried a few other recipes on this site that call for starting with a cold oven, but this one turned out much better. This is half the recipe on the package, so it makes one 6 cup pan worth. Unfortunately I cannot provide guidance on how to convert this recipe to a muffin pan, hopefully others may post notes.
Provided by Laurelbelle
Categories Quick Breads
Time 45m
Yield 6 Popovers, 6 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 5
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
- Spray the cups of a 6-cup popover pan with non-stick cooking spray.
- Pour 1/2 teaspoon of the melted butter into each cup.
- In a bowl, whisk together the eggs and the milk, then whisk in the remaining 1 Tbs. of butter.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the flour and salt, then whisk in the egg mixture. Whisk vigorously until smooth, about 2 minutes.
- Divide the batter among the 6 cups and bake for 20 minutes.
- Reduce heat to 325 and bake for 15 minutes more.
- Remove from oven, they should easily come out of the pan (thanks to butter in bottom), put them on a wire rack to cool.
- Serve plain (my fave), or with butter or jam for breakfast, or with roast beef and au jus.
PREHEATED OVEN POPOVERS
The popover is a culinary marvel, a loose batter that, with the aid of a hot oven, expands like a golden cumulus cloud, producing a crisp, hollow pastry with a soft, eggy interior. While the mixture is very similar to crepe batter, when you confine it to deep, narrow, muffinlike molds, the surface of the batter sets and the air is trapped, so that the pastry has nowhere to go but up and out, creating a gravity-defying bubble.
Provided by Amanda Hesser
Categories breakfast, side dish
Time 1h15m
Yield 10 popovers
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Generously grease 10 4-ounce heatproof pottery custard cups (or a muffin or popover pan) with butter. Arrange the cups (or muffin or popover pan) on a baking sheet.
- Beat the eggs lightly, then add the milk and melted butter and stir to combine. Gradually stir in the flour and salt. Beat just until the mixture is smooth. Do not overbeat. If the mixture is not smooth, strain it.
- Pour the mixture into a pitcher and then pour into the custard cups. Fill the cups almost to the top.
- Bake for 50 minutes. Do not open the oven door during baking.
- After 50 minutes, remove the popovers from the oven, cut several slits in the top of each and return to the oven for 5 to 10 minutes. Immediately remove the popovers from the cups.
Nutrition Facts : @context http, Calories 236, UnsaturatedFat 5 grams, Carbohydrate 22 grams, Fat 13 grams, Fiber 1 gram, Protein 8 grams, SaturatedFat 7 grams, Sodium 265 milligrams, Sugar 3 grams, TransFat 0 grams
Tips: The Art of Perfect Popovers
- Generous Greasing: Ensure your popover pan is abundantly greased with butter or cooking spray, reaching every nook and cranny. This prevents the popovers from sticking and promotes even browning.
- Hot Oven, Cold Batter: Preheat your oven to a high temperature before baking the popovers. Conversely, keep your batter cold by chilling it in the refrigerator. This temperature contrast helps the popovers rise quickly and tall.
- Avoid Peeking: Resist the temptation to open the oven door during baking. The sudden change in temperature can cause the popovers to collapse. Trust the process and let them bake undisturbed.
- Serve Immediately: Freshly baked popovers are at their peak of flavor and texture. Serve them warm, slathered with butter, jam, or your favorite toppings, to fully appreciate their delightful taste and airy texture.
Conclusion: A Culinary Delight
With a little care and attention, you can create mouthwatering popovers that are sure to impress. These versatile treats can be enjoyed as a savory appetizer, a delightful side dish, or even a sweet dessert. Whether you prefer classic popovers or experiment with different flavors and fillings, the possibilities are endless. So, gather your ingredients, preheat your oven, and embark on a culinary journey that will tantalize your taste buds and leave you craving more of these irresistible puffed pastries. Happy baking!
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